Government admits EU migrants do not hurt British jobs market
We know the value of migrant workers in rural England. We know this country’s economic success more broadly is based on the last 500 years of its history as a trading nation. I was very worried by the tone of reports suggesting that local unemployment of the indigenous population was directly linked migrant labour. We all know where those sort of views eventually lead.
This article goes on to explain “Immigration from outside Europe is linked to short-term job losses among British workers, but the recent influx of EU nationals has made no difference to unemployment levels, the Government’s expert advisers said yesterday.
For every 100 non-EU working-age migrants toBritainover the last 15 years, 23 “native workers” have lost their jobs, according to the Migration Advisory Committee (Mac). But the effect is temporary and the labour market recovers within five years to absorb the displaced British employees.
The Mac said there were 160,000 UK-born workers currently out of work after the arrival of 2.1 million migrants between 1995 and 2010, but it stopped short of saying there was a causal link between immigration and job losses.”